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ASSENTATION

Definition: ASSENTATION

ASSENTATION

Noun

1. Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ASSENTATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Etymology: Assentation \As`sen*ta"tion\, noun. [Latin expression assentatio. See Assent, verb.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translation: ASSENTATION

Language Translations for "ASSENTATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

servilizëm (cringe, obsequiousness, servility, subservience). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отстъпване (back track, compliance, concession, remise, retreat, retrocession, submission, surrender, yielding). (various references)

   

French

  

accession. (various references)

   

German

  

Zustimmung (accordance, agreement, approbation, approval, assent, compliance, consent, indulgence, o.k., okay, sanction). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

udvariassági beleegyezés. (various references)

   

Italian

  

consenso (accord, concurrence, consensus, consent). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

assentationay

   

Portuguese

  

aquiescência (acquiescence, consent), complacência (complaisance, compliance, willingness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

угодливость. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pristajanje (docking, fit). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aprobación (acceptance, adoption, applause, approbation, approval, consent, encouragement, endorsement, Favor, favour, indorsation, indorsement, passage, sanction, say so, suffrage). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự xun xoe đ"ng ý, sự vâng vâng dạ dạ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ASSENTATION

Derivations

Words beginning with "ASSENTATION": assentations. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ASSENTATION"

Words rhyming with "ASSENTATION" (pronounced 'As`sen*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ASSENTATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-n-n-o-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: annotates, astatines, intonates, natations, nattiness, sanitates, sensation, sonatinas, stannites, tinstones.

-3 letters: annattos, annotate, antsiest, assonant, astatine, astonies, enations, entasias, insanest, instants, instates, intonate, nastiest, natation, onanists, sanitate, satanist, satiates, satinets, sonatina, sonatine, stanines, stannite, stations, stoniest, tannates, tennists, tensions, tinstone, titaness, tontines.

-4 letters: aeonian, anattos, annates, annatto, anoints, atonies, attains, enation, entasia, entasis.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-n-n-o-s-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: assentations.

 

+2 letters: instantaneous.

 

+3 letters: annexationists, manifestations, retranslations, sensationalist.

 

+4 letters: instantaneously, neuroanatomists, nonstationaries, reinstallations, sensationalists.

 

+5 letters: emancipationists, externalisations, gastrointestinal, interassociation, latensifications, sensationalistic, transliterations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ASSENTATION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 53 53 45 4E 54 41 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ...    ...    .    -.    -    .-    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#83 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 0053 0045 004E 0054 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3553533948543554434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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